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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1919.

Application filed June 14, 1918. Serial No. 240,006.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. NOVAK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glassport, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Game-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved game apparatus for playing what I call a war game, the object of the invention being to provide a game apparatus of this class which enables an interesting game to be played without skill on the part of the players, and in which the element of chance is at its maximum.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a: plan of a game apparatus constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view, showing the bar or disk throwing element.

In the embodiment of the invention here shown, a board 1 is provided which is rounded at one end as at 2 and which has a narrowed portion 3 at the other, the front end, and is also provided with a surrounding wall or flange 4. The board presents a runway 5 0n the opposite sides of which are spaced blocks 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, as shown. At the rear end of the board is a field 12 which is here shown as divided into cross spaces 18, 14, 15, 16. Near the front end of the board and arranged in line with the center of the runway 5 is a spring bar or disk throwing element 17 which may be bent back by the finger and when released caused to throw a disk 18 along the runway 5.

I also provide game pieces of difi'erent point values, said game pieces being here shown as flags 19, cannon 20, ammunition piles 21 and soldiers 22, each of which may be made of wood, tin or any other suitable material, and in all twelve the said pieces 20, 21, 22 being provided which are differently colored, siX of the pieces that is to say, two of the cannon, two of the ammunition piles and two of the soldiers, being of one color, for instance, gray, and the ether see responding pieces being of another color, such for instance, blue, and to respectively indicate German and French. Two of the flag pieces 19 are provided, one the German flag and the other the French flag to correspond with the other pieces. The board is provided with openings in which the flag staffs may be mounted as at 23.

The game is played as follows: Players choose sides and each player places his flag appropriately 0n the board. The board being clear, the players shoot the disk successively. The first object of each player is to assemble his army represented by the pieces 20, 21, 22. When he shoots the disk, if the same falls, say, in the space 14 of the field and between the lines such player then is entitled to take a cannon piece 20 and to place the same on one of the blocks on his side of the board. If the disk stops on one of the lines the player is entitled to nothing. If the disk stops in the space 13 the player is entitled to a soldier figure 22. If the disk stops in the space 15 the player is entitled to an ammunition figure 21. The object of each player is to get all his pieces in the field and to prevent his opponent from doing so. After a player has gotten all of his pieces in the field each succeeding shoot which he makes entitles him to take one of the pieces of his opponent from the field, according to the point at which the disk stops. That is to say, if the disk stops in the space 13, he takes one of his opponents soldiers 22. If the disk stops in the space 1-1, he takes one of his oppenents cannon 20. If the disk stops in the space 15, he takes one of his opponents ammunition piles 21. If the disk stops on any of the lines between the spaces, he takes nothing.

The object of the game is to get all of the opponents pieces.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The herein described game apparatus comprising a board having a field at one end divided into spaces and provided at the opposite end with a disk projecting device, the beard being alse provided at opposite sides with game piece receiving spaces; a disk, and game pieces for arrangement in the said game piece spaces.

2. The herein described game apparatus comprising a board having a field at one end divided into spaces and provided at the opposite end with a disk projecting device, the board being also provided at opposite sides with game piece receiving spaces; a disk, and game pieces for arrangement in 10 the said game piece spaces, said game pieces comprising flags, cannon, ammunition piles and soldiers. I

' In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EDWARD S. NOVAK.

copiel of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patent: Washington, D. C. 

